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Influence

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It has been a long while since I have posted anything here. I have been busy completing three years toward my B.A. in English and my senior year is underway. My current class (Creative Writing) has finally given me the space to take off the tight harness of academic writing rules, and it feels SO GOOD!! After reading my first assignment, Mom and Daddy gave it their thumbs up and suggested I make it a blog post, so here it is. It is my story and their story. It's a little longer than my usual posts, but as with everything I have ever posted here, I pray it encourages you to run "up the sunbeam to the sun" (C. S. Lewis). "Follow my example,  as I follow the example of Christ." 1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV I sat above them on the stairs. Looking down through the window-like openings in the partition between the living room and the stairway, I listened to the basketball players, football players, baseball players, wrestlers, track athletes, both the lettermen ...
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O Cross That Liftest Up My Head

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-- If I write the words, "On a hill far away . . . " what comes to mind? What about, "When peace like a river . . . ?" Try this one, "Mine eyes have seen the glory . . . " Chances are, at least for many of you, these line fragments will start a cascade of words and mental images that follow because the hymns they belong to are engraved deep in your hearts from much repetition. For those of us who grew up in churches where hymns were sung, these phrases are like keys that unlock whole worlds within them; we can scarcely hear the opening phrase without the rest of the hymn springing to life in our memories. Jesus may have been doing the very same thing in this familiar passage: “ From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.  About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice,  'Eli, Eli,  lema sabachthani?'  (which means  'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' ). ”   Matthew 27:45-46...
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